[Morning]

I want to store a variable for a player, but I want to access it across map changes. At the moment I am using client as an array index, but it can change.

From my understanding, a player userid will be unique for the lifetime of the game server, so it seems like I need to somehow use that. Would this involve storing userid first in an array, and then using that to get a new client number after a map change? Does anyone have any working code of this so I can see how it's done?

[PC Gamer]

You may wish to consider using Client Preferences. It writes a cookie on the client machine that can be read by your code whenever you need it. Here's a good tutorial: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=228244

[Bacardi]

...cookie is saved on server, sqlite database file in ...sourcemod/data/

But use that system only for saving settings, not for ban/rank/stats system.

Sqlite is second way to store anything data.

Third one would be keyvalues, but it could cause headcache.


- client index is entity index, it is like player slot on server.
- userid is like ticket number, when player reconnect to server he get new ticket number.
- each player have steamid, you find player with that in any day.

[Morning]

Currently one reason is for storing session stats which just get reset / discarded at the end of the session and not stored in database - I'm running L4D2, and a campaign session usually consists of 4 mapchanges and clients can get moved around slots. I'm firstly looking to fix this.

There would be other small things too, and I could use clientprefs or database, but I'm wary of adding more database calls than I really need because it can cause lag because I dont have good I/O speed and I don't use threaded query. If clientprefs is threaded that could be okay but otherwise it would be good to keep things in memory.

I will try to use multidimensional array where I store and update userid, client, ect. If that fails I will try database, I guess.

But yeah, if anyone has code of a fast and simple way to do it in memory, that would be very helpful!

Thanks all for the help